Article based on a report by Childwise, which has analysed the behaviour of children and adolescents in relation to media consumption. The report shows that program viewing is rarely done live at the time of broadcast, and more often than not from tablets rather than televisions.

Article about French radio stations protesting against a 30 year old French law, which requires radio stations to play a minimum of 40% of French songs. The law is often referred to as the 'cultural exception' and is designed to protect the French language and culture, opponents argue that it impinges upon free trade in cultural products.

News article relating to the 2015 MacTaggert lecture at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in which Armando Iannucci calls for stronger and more leading content on Britain's TV channels, to remain at the forefront of global production.

UK media regulator Ofcom has said that the number of UK homes with televisions has fallen from 26.33 million in 2012 to 26.02 million in 2013 as more people choose to watch television programs on laptops, tablets and smartphones.

Feature inspired by Amazon's decision to put a 'racial stereotype warning' on some old episodes of Tom and Jerry, a move which has been criticised by a Senior academic, who compares this to censorship and states 'a tolerant society needs to discuss disturbing art'.

Feature about efforts
by the BBC to redress the gender imbalance that currently exists between male
and female presenters on local radio stations. In August last year, BBC
director general Tony Hall outlined his ambition to have 50% of radio breakfast
shows featuring a woman presenter by the end of 2014.

News from the BBC about plans to increase the representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups in on screen programming. A fund of £2.1m has been put aside to support the on screen portrayal of diversity in television programs.

Children 'see harmful TV material', says National Association of Head Teachers

News report about a charter being drawn up by the National Association of Head Teachers to protect children's innocence, which includes the media and broadcasters doing their bit not to show sex and violence before the 9pm watershed.

Feature exploring the funding mechanisms for state owned television services around the world. This is in light of the fact that there is an ongoing debate in the UK over decriminalising not buying a television licence.

Discussion around the reasons for the BBC scaling down BBC Three and putting the channel online. The article points out economic pressures on the BBC such as the need to save money, as well as social factors including the increasing amount of time spent watching TV online by teenagers and young people.

News about a report by the Broadcasters Audience Research Board (Barb), which reveals that on average people in the UK watched 3 hours, 55 minutes and 30 seconds of TV per day - 12 minutes less than in 2012, with 98.5% of people viewing by television sets.

News story about the demand for mobile digital frequencies in the UK being so high, that it could lead to some broadcasters losing part of their frequency spectrum. Demand has been particularly exacerbated by demand for high volume data transfers on mobile devices.

Feature about a lecture given by actor Kevin Spacey at the Edinburgh Television Festival, in which he states that television audiences are becoming more demanding as they make use of on-demand, and how this has lead to viewing of entire series at once rather than spread over weeks.

Feature about criticisms of UK television broadcaster policy by actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, who staes that TV bosses are now less likely to experiment with new formats than what they used to be, and that the draw of talent and reality television is pushing other formats out of the market.

The popularity of smartphones and tablets are bringing many teens out of their bedrooms and into living rooms, where family television viewing is on the up, albeit with viewers distracted and multitasking.

While current user numbers of streaming services are much lower in Europe than in North America - Lovefilm has just over two million subscribers, including both streaming customers and those signed up to its DVD-only service - the potential of the UK and European market is plain to see: Netflix already has 20 million members worldwide. So can a streaming service really compete with traditional television?

An update to the BBC's iPlayer app now allows it to stream video over all of the UK's 3G mobile networks. The new feature works on Apple's iPhones and iPads. This is the first time that 3G mobile streaming of a major television network has been rolled out in the UK.

Ofcom has reminded UK radio broadcasters of the rules regarding explicit lyrics in songs following several breaches. The media watchdog held a meeting with commercial radio and the BBC after a "few incidences" which broke the rules, an Ofcom spokesman said.

News story about actors campaigning for more prominent credits at the end of television programmes, that are urging members of the public to back their cause, by completing a survey aimed at letting broadcasters know “what ordinary viewers” think.

News release by RAJAR highlighting the varying ways by which the British population are accessing radio broadcasts, and the numbers of people who are listening to radio broadcasts, amongst other things the report indicates a rise in the number of people who are listening to radio via mobile pohones.

Feature discussing the rise in social media usage amongst TV viewers, according to a YouGov report 43% of British adults commented on or discussed TV shows they were watching using Twitter, Facebook, other websites and mobile phones.

News story about Britain's first in-vehicle digital radio conference, the Drive to Digital Conference highlighted new areas of coverage, and new radio stations, particularly on major roads and motorways.

News story about the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that national laws which prohibit the import, sale or use of foreign decoder cards to show live Premier League fixtures are contrary to the freedom to provide services, an integral part of the European Union's free-trade laws.

Feature highlighting how British TV programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing, and The X Factor as well as dramas like Downton Abbey and Sherlock have led to a 13% rise in export revenues to more than £1.4bn in the last year.

News article about the UK television regulator Ofcom, which has created a 12 page document to remind broadcasters of their obligations for material showed before the 21:00 watershed. The article also reveals a softening of attitudes from parents towards what their children can see on TV.

News story about director of the BBC series Criminal Justice Yann Demange who has bemoaned the lack of roles for black actors in British television and has said that there should be more 'colour blind casting'.

News story about the BBC who have launched an international version of their iPlayer app.

Customers who pay a monthly subscription will get access to a range of current and classic programmes. The app will have one feature not available in the UK - the ability to download content and watch offline.

Blog article discussing the development of iPad based news applications for streaming television news as well as newspapers, and the ensuing debate as to whether consumers will pay for this premium service.

Article highlighting how UK adults underestimate how long that they are watching TV for. Industry figures suggest people watch more than 30 hours of TV a week but 2,066 adults who completed an online survey said they watched an average of less than 20 hours of TV a week in January.

Broadcasters cannot stop customers using cheaper foreign satellite TV equipment to watch Premier League football, an EU legal adviser has said. Whilst this has not yet been ruled into EU law, it is likely that 'national' exclusivities for pay-TV broadcasters within the EU will now be ruled illegal.

News story about the US re-make of the hit Channel 4 teen drama 'Skins' being deemed dangerous by parents group, and having its very legality challenged due to it's sexual content and teenage actors / audience.

News story around the controversy caused by comedian Franke Boyle on the Channel 4 television program 'Franke Boyle's Tramadol Nights', during which he told a joke about Katie Price's disabled son Harvey.

News story about a British pub owner facing legal action for buying Premier League match coverage from a Greek satellite firm. This case has now gone to the European courts, in what could be a landmark ruling.

News story about the sale and uptake of 3DTV sets, which went on sale in UK department stores earlier this year, after sports network ESPN committed to broadcasting at least 25 of the World Cup games in 3D.

News article about the England V Slovenia match at the 2010 World Cup being reported by the BBC as being a new record in terms of online viewing figures. Internet service provider KC suggest that the game triggered a 31% jump in web traffic, with 800,000 'concurrent streams'.

News story about BSkyB’s acquisition of Virgin Media TV. The new arrangement means that Sky will no longer have to pay to show Virgin channels, which also include Challenge, Challenge Jackpot and the Virgin 1 channel. It also brings Sky's HD services to a wider audience. The Virgin 1 channel is to be rebranded by Sky.

News article about the BBC iPlayer integrating online social networking with it's programme selection, allowing users to 'share' links to their favourite and viewed programmes with friends and followers online.

News story about various UK retailers offering discounts of 10%-20% when people trade in their old analogue sets.

The move, modeled on the government's vehicle scrappage scheme, runs from Saturday until 26 June to coincide with the build-up to football's World Cup. The old sets will be reconditioned and sent to southern Africa to give young people access to radio programmes.

News article detailing how the trade body the Radio Independents Group has welcomed the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, and has called on him to act to introduce a fixed quota of BBC commissions from the independent sector.

News article about Kiri Te Kanawa and Stephen Fry are to present programmes as part of a BBC season celebrating opera, which will be broadcast across TV, radio and the internet and which the Corporation claims is its biggest ever commitment to the art form.

News article about comics, so the theory went, were corrupting the imaginations of children and inflaming them with fear of the unknown. A few dissenting academics pointed out there was no mention of a creature matching the description of the Gorbals Vampire in any of these comics.

News story about how two decades ago sports broadcaster Setanta started life in an Irish dance hall in west London, showing the Republic of Ireland's 1990 World Cup game against Holland after the BBC and ITV declined to broadcast the game in the UK.

News article about the BBC's admission that at least six programmes breached editorial standards by faking phone-ins has led the corporation to announce a "zero tolerance" approach to any future errors.